26 Languages in 26 Minutes

26 short language profiles - one for every letter of the alphabet!
These languages are from around the globe and every inhabited continent. Some are rare or endangered, while others are in frequent use.

Music:
Folk Round by Kevin MacLeod

[LexisLang]

26 Minutes, 26 Letters, 26 Languages!
Some of them you've probably heard of before, but I tried to include a range from across the world and with varying speaker counts. One thing they all are, however is interesting. Which language(s) interested you the most?

If you're interested in old or extinct languages, there's a vocab short coming out in two weeks. 20th November - keep an eye out! I'm also currently working on a Christmas-themed video for next month, so make sure you don't miss out on that. ENJOY!! :)

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1.Akan🇬🇭 0:01

2.Bengali🇧🇩 0:57

3.Coptic🇪🇬 1:55

4.Dhivehi🇲🇻 2:52

5.Eyak🇺🇲 3:55

6.Frisian🇳🇱 4:54

7.Greenlandic🇬🇱🇩🇰 5:47

8.Haitian Creole🇭🇹 6:42

9.Inuit sign🇨🇦7:39

10.Javanese🇮🇩8:34

11.Ket🇷🇺 9:35

12.Laal🇹🇩🇨🇫 10:21

13.Malaylam🇮🇳 11:15

14.Nahuatl🇲🇽 12:01

15.Ossetian🇷🇺🇬🇪 12:50

16.Pirahã🇧🇷 13:46

17.Quechua🇵🇪🇧🇴🇪🇨 14:48

18.Romanian🇷🇴 15:45

19.Swahili🇹🇿 16:48

20:Tok pisin🇵🇬 17:47

21.Uyghur🇨🇳🇰🇿🇰🇬🇺🇿 18:55

22.Vietnamnese🇻🇳 20:05

23.Welsh🇬🇧🇦🇷 21:17

24.Xhosa🇿🇦 22:34

25.Yoruba🇳🇬🇧🇯 23:48

26.Zaghawa🇹🇩🇸🇩 24:56

[marrriiii]

yo this is actually pretty good how does this not have more views

[dixdepiques]

Really great vid!! I always love finding more linguistic related content

[kinjoko]

Amazing video packed with very interesting information. It deserves a lot more than 1.9K views

[SpartanChief]

you should do Guarani, a language preserved in Paraguay as co official language with spanish, sue to the low # of spanish that were sent to the region and not being seen as too iportant, they had to speak the local language. Resulting in majority indigenous so the children that would grow up to be in Government would be bi-lingual. Then the 1st leader mad a policy of no 2 spanish can marry each other which furthered race mixing an bi lingualism as well as missionaries developing a lain alphabet and writing system for it. It was suppressed for many years but it is spoken by majorrity and became national then an official language in the 20th century.

[YogaBlissDance]

Dude make more! The fact video has so many views way more than subs mean you hit on something that folks want!

[yldy]

This is pretty underrated! More people should know this!

[dalubwikaan]

I like the last part of the video. I hope the Zaghawa language will officially use the Camel script.

Hope on the future, all language/dialects will have their own unique writing script.

[a_person-qyju]

Your channel is always so fascinating and informative. I've learnt a lot already. And the soft voice and music help me sleep when insomnia hits. Looking forward to more on the conlang series! BTW my favourite in this video is Coptic. Going to learn more about it right now!

[barbs]

Wow, never thought someone put my language on the list, matoh tenan Lik👍.

[aidenwinter]

Fun fact, the Uyghur script is not an abjad like the Arabic script, but rather an alphabet derived from the Arabic script

[e.]

Do a part 2 please! with other 26 languages or interesting words across the world

[goobs..]

WHATTTT IM A COPT I NEVER SEE COPTIC ONLINE!!1!1!!1

[martinusprimes]

nice vid, I've got a question, how did you do the family trees?

[MM]

es un poco triste porque si bien el nahuatl tiene 1.7m de hablantes estoy seguro que el 99% solo lo habla en su pueblo y cuando van a las ciudades lo olvidan porque aqui se discrimina a la gente que no hable español, ingles o cualquier idioma que sea considerado "bueno" o "avanzado" y eso se puede ver en las ciudades y la gente discrimina cuando hablan en otro idioma pero quedan sorprendidos y tratan como si fueran reyes a cualquiera que hable ingles o un idioma de europa o cualquier idioma de un pais avanzado y cuando se encuentran a una persona indigena la tratan mal y por eso cuando ves a una persona indigena que habla un idioma nativo es normal que te responda en español para no ser discriminada y se nota enseguida en su acento y forma de hablar que no hablan español de forma nativa aunque si hay unos que te hablan en su idioma y no saben español y es mas comun aqui en el sur de mexico cerca de centroamerica ademas de que generalmente quien habla esos idiomas es una persona con razgos indigenas y de clase baja y aqui hay un gran problema de clasismo y racismo e importa mucho tu estatus social y color de piel y nunca entenderé el por qué y mas en una region con tanta pobreza y desigualdad y con personas de tantas etnias diferentes

[niharbehere]

How does a language with only 20 speakers have dialects?

[NoRygBu]

I thought, that you would speak every one of those for 1 minute, and not English. 😜😜😜

[wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

Malayalam has the world's most beautiful writing system in my opinion

[WatermelonQeed]

The video is glitching going to other places